John 7:45-53

45Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”

46The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”

47Then the Pharisees answered, “You haven’t been deceived too, have you?

48None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?

49But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”

50Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,

51“Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”

52They replied, “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!” [[

53And each one departed to his own house.